What are you reading tonight DU? Me, the Social Animal by David Brooks. It follows the life

[applegrove]

story of a couple all the while imparting studies that have been done on human behaviour. If you are interested in psychology at all read this book.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Take it with a grain of salt - David Brooks is a conservative writer for the NYT

who is often full of crap.

[applegrove]

2. Oh I do. I read conservative books and take from it what I want. Facts that can be verified.

Plus I figure out where they are going in their thinking. But thanks. You know...know thine enemy.

[Chan790]

3. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

House of Leaves has to be the most difficult novel written in the past 10 years, hands down.

It's single-handedly killing my goal of reading 100 novels this year...and I'm in the 90s. I've been stuck on this book for over a month. It's full of esoterica, anecdotes having nothing to do with plot, footnotes, excerpts and citations to imaginary scholarly articles about the house at the center of the main-plot ghost story. 47 pages in, 9...nine...pages have been on the central plot. We have not one but two narrators both of whom are independently editing the manuscript...and disagree about what the facts mean. One of them keeps adding in anecdotes from his personal life. Bith are suffering from mental illnesses that make them only mostly-coherent. There are entire sections of the book written backwards; pages mounted upside down; pages that have been drawn-on; scribblings in the margins; text-effects to simulate running water and sprinting down a hall screaming chased by an invisible monster; sections of the book in braille and assorted foreign languages; after-the-fact interviews with the surviving characters, one of whom just babbles and screams; photographic evidence; and a secondary plot involving how one of the editors found the book while cleaning out the apartment of a dead man who might have been murdered by the manuscript.

It goes without saying that if I ever finish it and I ever do get to go back and get my Ph.D in Contemporary Lit...I want to write my thesis on this novel.

[XemaSab]

4. Good choice

:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

5. The Big Year

For like the 5th time. :D

[Sisaruus]

6. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva

[Odin2005]

7. "Antony and Cleopatra" by Colleen McCullough.

It's the last book in her "Masters of Rome" historical novels.

[tabbycat31]

8. what is this reading you speak of?

I'd seriously LOVE to sit down with a book but with 12 hour work days and 3 hours of commuting, no chance to until after we win this race.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. In Other Worlds

SF and the human imagination

by Margaret Atwood